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History of Ashland County, Ohio
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches,
by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros.
-1880 -

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WILLIAM TANGEMAN was born in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, Dec. 31, 1831.  In 1851 he left Germany with the determination of trying the new world, and upon his landing here went directly to Cincinnati, Ohio, and remained engaged in the wholesale tobacco trade, until 1855, when he moved to Mansfield, Ohio.  In April he married Miss Margaret Schiedt.  In Mansfield he remained two years in the tobacco business, when he disposed of his business in Mansfield and returned to Cincinnati, where he remained eight years, and in 1865 he purchased a farm near Loudonville, Ashland county, Ohio, and in 1867 sold this farm and bought and removed to where he now resides, about one mile west of Hayesville, Ohio.  They have eight children - three sons and five daughters, all except the oldest son being at home and single. Mr. Tangeman has served his township as trustee, and his school district as director.  In politics he is a Democrat, but is a man with many friends in both parties.  Mr. Tangeman and wife are members of the German Evangelical church in Vermillion township.  The medicine.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 300
THE TANNEHILLSMelzer Tannehill, sr.,  was born in Frederick county, Maryland, July 12, 1716.  He emigrated to what is now Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and located near Pittsburgh in the year 1777, during the Revolutionary war.  He married Miss Eleanor Lile, Mar. 23, 1790.  He emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1805, and in September, 1811, removed to Green township, in what is now Ashland county, and located on section twenty-three, where he resided over fifty years.  He was one of the first commissioners of Richland county in 1813.  In 1812 he was assessor of Knox county.  He was subsequently a justice of the peace of Green township.  During the exciting scenes of 1812, after the assassinations on the Black fork, he took a vigilant part in preparing to repel any future assaults by the savages.  He deceased Apr. 24, 1851.  He was an exemplary and upright man, and had been a regular attendant upon the services of the Presbyterian church for many years.  His family consisted of five sons and five daughters.  Two sons and three daughters yet survive.
     Charles Tannehill was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 30, 1792.  He emigrated with his father's family in 1811, and assisted in improving the homestead in Green township.  During the border troubles of 1812, he served as a soldier in a company recruited in Knox county, Ohio, by Captain Greer, and participated in all the dangers incident to border life.  In June, 1814, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Allen Oliver, and located on section twenty-seven, where he resided over fifty years.  He died at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Joseph Cathcart, in Portage county, Indiana, Nov. 26, 1875, at the advanced age of eighty-four years.  His remains were brought to Perrysville for interment, and now rest beside those of the wife of his youth, who had preceded him to the grave.  He was a member of the Disciple church.  His family consisted of twelve children, nine sons and three daughters.  Four sons and two daughters survived him.  Mr. Adamson Tannehill, the oldest son, resides in Hicksville, Defiance county, Ohio.  He was born July 1, 1815, and is the oldest living native of Green township.
     MELZER TANNEHILL, JR., second son of Melzer, sr., was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1801, and removed with his father's family to Jefferson county, Ohio, and thence to Green township in 1811, and assisted in improving the old homestead.  He is now seventy-five years old, and quite rugged.  He wrights a fair hand, and may survive many years.  He is an influential farmer, and takes a lively interest in the improvement of the county.  His recollections of the days of the pioneers are quite vivid.  At the organization of the pioneer and historical society of Ashland county in 1875, he communicated many interesting incidents, and became a member.  He says the following pioneers were citizens of Green township at the arrival of his father's family in 1811:  "George Pierce, John Davis, George and Abram Baughman, John Murphy, Joseph Jones, Sylvester Fisher, Ebenezer Rice, Solomon Hill, Josiah L. Hill, Moses Adsit, Thomas Coulter, Allen Oliver and Jeremiah Conine, and their families.  In the fall of 1812, when the Indians became hostile, the settlers erected strong cabins and block-houses for their protection.  Some three or four families having friends at Clinton, Knox county, removed there for greater safety.  There was no stampede, as some state.  All the settlers, except the ones named, remained and occupied their own places of defence."
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 163
WILLIAM TAYLOR was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 14, 1774.  His father had emigrated from Ireland two or three years before the commencement of the American Revolution.  He removed, after the close of the war, in to Huntingdon county, and subsequently into Bedford county near the iron works.  Here William remained until manhood, and married.  In August, 1821, he emigrated, with his family, to Richland county, Ohio, landing at Mansfield.  He brought with him one five-horse, one four-horse and one two-horse team.  The large team was loaded principally with axes, grubbing hoes, wedges, corn hoes and other necessary tools, and one set of blacksmith tools, which were disposed of to the pioneers at a fair profit.  His route was by Pittsburgh, then along Cook's and Beall's trails to Wooster, and thence through Jeromeville, Hayes' cross roads, Petersburgh, and to Mansfield along the old State road.  In the fall of 1821, he purchased four quarter sections of land adjoining what is now the Carey farm in Green township.  He improved this property, passing through all the struggles of pioneer life, and resided on it until Mar. 7, 1851, when he deceased.  This homestead, in point of soil and location, was one of the finest in the county.  Mr. Taylor was twice married.  His family consisted of eight sons - William, Thomas, Levi, James, Alexander, David, John and Andrew, and one daughter, Sarah, wife of Thomas McGuire, of Green.  John has been repeatedly elected justice of the peace, has served two terms in the Ohio legislature, and was elected probate judge in 1875.
     The family are all deceased but Levi, James, David, John, Andrew and Mrs. McGuire.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 165
JOSIAH THOMAS was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1804.  His father George Thomas, of Welsh descent, removed to Harrison county, Ohio, and located near Cadiz, in 1807.  He was a tailor by trade, and followed his business there until 1817, when he emigrated to the village of Petersburgh, now Mifflin, Mifflin township, Ashland county.  He, George Thomas, remained there several years engaged at his trade, and in keeping a hotel, the village being on the main line of travel from Canton, Wooster to Mansfield, and the west part of the State.  Jacob Beam being a brother-in-law of Mr. George Thomas, and an uncle to Josiah, his two older brothers, Henry and Peter, had visited Mr. Beam, to see the country prior to the removal of the family.  In 1824 George Thomas, with his family, removed to Orange township, and located upon the present homestead of Josiah ThomasJosiah attended the common schools of the neighborhood, and adopted farming as an occupation.  In 1828 he married Miss Eliza Zimmerman.  His family consists  of seven children - George, Henry, Warren, Mary, Elizabeth, Freelove, and Harriet George, Henry and Elizabeth were married.  Mr. Thomas is a quiet, industrious and exemplary farmer.  He has never been an office-seeker; yet, against his protests, the people of his township have elected him trustee fifteen or sixteen times.  When Ashland county was organized in 1846, Mr. Thomas was appointed commissioner for the short term, and elected in October, for three years, and served until 1850.  He has been a member of the Disciple church about twenty years.  In 1879 he was elected president of the Historical and Pioneer society of Ashland county, which office he yet holds.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 176
NELSON THOMAS was born June 6, 1831.  His father was a native of Wales, where he was born about 1785; he died near Jeromeville, Ohio, in 1853.  His mother, Anna Thomas, was born in New Jersey, about 1806.  They had a family of five children, of whom Jane Died in Kosciusko county, Indiana; Elizabeth, who married J. M. Hess, and lives in CAss county, Missouri; Amanda, who married Thomas Norris, and lives in Fulton county, Indiana; Sarah M.,  who married Joseph H. Page, and lives in Cass county, Missouri.  Nelson Thomas, the subject of this sketch, was married when twenty-one years of age, to Sarah Keister, of Hayesville, Ohio.  They have had six children, five of whom are living.  One son, Franklin, died October 30, 1877, at the age of nineteen.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 396
PETER THOMAS was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1798, His father, George Thomas, emigrated with his family, to Harrison county, in the spring of 1807. In 1815 Peter Thomas, then sixteen years of age, traveled on foot, accompanied by the family watch-dog, a large and faithful mastiff, along a new path leading from Cadiz to the village of Wooster, and rested one night at Stibbs' mill. The next night he reached the cabin of John Raver, near the present site of Rowsburgh. The following morning he pursued his journey by paths until he struck Beall's trail, at Jerome's place, and thence along a blazed path partly opened, to Beam's mill, three miles below Mansfield, on the Rocky fork of Mohican. Jacob Beam, the owner of the mill, was an uncle. He re­mained a few weeks, and returned. In 1817, his father's family came on and erected a cabin on the present site of Mifflin, believed to have been the first shingled house in the township of Mifflin. When the tide of emigration commenced, after the close of the war, the road from Mansfield to Wooster, passed through Peters-burgh, as the village was then called, and it became the principal route to Richland and other western counties for emigration. Mr. George Thomas, father of Peter, kept the first house of entertainment, which was well patronized for six or eight years. In 1823,   George Thomas and family located on a farm now owned by Josiah Thomas, in Orange township. Peter Thomas purchased two hundred acres adjoining the homestead, in Montgomery township, and resided upon it until about 1860, when he removed to a new residence, one and a half miles northeast of Ashland, where he deceased, February 26, 1876. He was conscious of the approaching termination of his life, arid was in the act of dictating a codicil to a will, when he became faint, and expired in a few moments, from paralysis of the heart. He had been three times married, and left a large and reputable family to mourn his loss. He had been a member to the Disciple church for a number of years, and adorned his profession by an upright and ex­emplary life. As a citizen, he was highly respected. He was a man of uncommon resolution and firmness when he had deliberately formed an opinion. He was high-toned and exact in all his transactions with men, and inflexibly opposed to every species of prevarication in morals, business and politics. He was never an office-seeker, but was always the advocate of a pure, economical and patriotic administration of the government.  He was a careful, frugal, and shrewd business man, and had acquired a handsome property. Few men have taken a deeper interest in the prosperity of the county, and none will be more lamented.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 158
JOHN TILTON was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1760.  He entered the army of the American Revolution when he was sixteen years old, in 1776.  He served in a regiment commanded by Collonel Klon.  He was in the battles of Princeton, Jan. 3, 1777; Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777; Monmouth, June 28, 1778; Sander's Creek, Aug. 16, 1780; Jamestown, July 9, 1781; at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, Oct. 19, 1781, and in a number of heavy skirmishes and retreats.  He was in the service nearly five years, during which he experienced all the privations and hardships incident to the Revolutionary war.  At the expiration of his service he returned to New Jersey, and married.
     In 1787 he removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania.  His family, at that time, consisted of himself, his wife, and two children - Elizabeth and Ira.
     In August, 1812, he removed to Stark county, Ohio.  In 1814 he removed to Stark county, where he remained until May, 1831, when he located on section thirty-five, in Orange township, Ashland county.  He purchased the farm of Robert Crawford, upon which had been erected, by its owner, a noted horse-mill of the pioneer period.
     Mr. Tilton enlisted, for a tour of three months, in the brigade of Colonel Robert Crooks, in the war of 1812, in the northeast, while residing in Stark county, and accompanied the Pennsylvania troops, under General Robert Crooks, from Pittsburgh to Jerome's place and Mansfield, late in the fall of 1812.
     He possessed great bodily vigor, which he retained to an advanced age.  He was inflexible in his purposes, and retained a clear intellect until the time of his death.  He expired, after a brief illness, at his farm in Orange township, Aug. 12, 1849, aged nearly ninety years.  He was accompanied to his final rest, in the cemetery at Orange, by volunteer military companies under the command of the late Colonel Alexander Miller, Major R. B. Fulkerson, and Captain John S. Fulton, and hundreds of his old neighbors.
     Mr. Tilton was regarded as an upright and valuable citizen.  His services in the war of Independence, and of 1812, with Great Britain, won for him the esteem of all his patriotic neighbors.
     Mrs. Tilton preceded him to the grave about four months, at the age of eighty-four years.  The family consisted of Elizabeth, Ira, Sarah, Amy, Phebe, Deborah, Aaron, and James A.  Of these, only two survive - Mrs. Phebe Camybell, aged eighty-five, and James Albert, aged sixty-five.  The latter resides on the old homestead and is remarkable for his extraordinary physical force and mental determination.  He is a successful farmer and business man.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 165

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